Welcome to the world of design!!!! You are going to hear me say this a lot but I never have noticed or thought about what an influence design has on our everyday lives. It is in everything we see. It affects everything we do!
Then I started thinking about when do I design, when do I ever get to make something out of thin air and design something for myself? I realized that I almost never do use design unless I am outside of school and am making something like a cake or a sewing project. The only times that I can think of that I have ever used design in school was when I was told to make a project any way that I wanted, which is not very often. Usually, the teacher tells you what to make and what to do, you don't get to design the project yourself or come up with your own ideas. But then I began to dig deeper and noticed that I design how I write things on my paper. I design the answers to my homework. I will get to design my schedule next year (for the most part). So, it goes both ways, on the surface it looks as if we barely ever use it, but as I stated before, when you did deeper you really discover that design is all around us.
There are many different types of design but here are a few:
1)design of ideas
2)design of objects
3)design of systems
I think that design is rather a hard topic to discuss and to debate because it is such a relevant part of our everyday lives. But there were a few very minor things that I did disagree with.
The first thing was that as children age they consider design, art, to be a deviant behavior. I believe that it is just that as we age we spend less time around things like art. We no longer get to enjoy art classes or finger painting. It is not like we take a couple moments everyday to spend creating something new. To spend using our r-directed thinking to create a new, inovative, drawing that expresses ourselfs. It is kind of like the way that our rightbrain has attrophied from under use. Our enjoyment of art has faltered because of lack of exposure, lack of involvement in.
One point that he made that I kindof did not understand was that design in its simplist form is the act of creating solutions. But isn't narrowing something down to one solution a L-directed thing. I believe that design is the act of taking something and creating something totally new and personal that functions and has meaning, not something that comes up with an answer.
I extremely disagree with the point that Pink made on the fact that horsepower has taken a back seat to ambience. I know that my brother tries everything he can on his car to try to gain more speed, more horsepower. I also know that when guys look at a car they do not say, "Wow, the design of the door is really attractive." But they do say, "I wonder how much horsepower that thing has."
One point that I think Pink danced around a lot but never really made clear was that the design of a new product is important but the product also has to be something new, something we have never seen before in order to influence us to like it and want it. When a new product comes out we do not become interested in it unless it is something completely new. Something that has significance and utility. So a new product not only has to have design but it has to be innovative and original.
Pink quoted CHAD'S Barbara Chandler Alan who said, "To be a designer is to be an agent of change." I thought that this was interesting because it is true if you think about it, and also it gives a reason for why design will be essential. Because design can not be shipped over seas!!!!
Here are a couple extra things about design:
Here is a very interesting article on the influence of font text (Postrel)
Here is a video talking about the design of a car and the importants of the car's design. (The Design)
In the movie Mona Lisa Smiles, there is a scene where the students are brought to a warehouse where they observe a very interestingly designed painting. This is the turning point in the movie when the students finally start to use their brain as a whole and understand the picture as they see it instead of how someone else has told them to understand it. It was the design of the painting that made the difference. Here is the trailer for the film and the scene for what I was talking about is close to the very end. (Mona)
Then I started thinking about when do I design, when do I ever get to make something out of thin air and design something for myself? I realized that I almost never do use design unless I am outside of school and am making something like a cake or a sewing project. The only times that I can think of that I have ever used design in school was when I was told to make a project any way that I wanted, which is not very often. Usually, the teacher tells you what to make and what to do, you don't get to design the project yourself or come up with your own ideas. But then I began to dig deeper and noticed that I design how I write things on my paper. I design the answers to my homework. I will get to design my schedule next year (for the most part). So, it goes both ways, on the surface it looks as if we barely ever use it, but as I stated before, when you did deeper you really discover that design is all around us.
There are many different types of design but here are a few:
1)design of ideas
2)design of objects
3)design of systems
I think that design is rather a hard topic to discuss and to debate because it is such a relevant part of our everyday lives. But there were a few very minor things that I did disagree with.
The first thing was that as children age they consider design, art, to be a deviant behavior. I believe that it is just that as we age we spend less time around things like art. We no longer get to enjoy art classes or finger painting. It is not like we take a couple moments everyday to spend creating something new. To spend using our r-directed thinking to create a new, inovative, drawing that expresses ourselfs. It is kind of like the way that our rightbrain has attrophied from under use. Our enjoyment of art has faltered because of lack of exposure, lack of involvement in.
One point that he made that I kindof did not understand was that design in its simplist form is the act of creating solutions. But isn't narrowing something down to one solution a L-directed thing. I believe that design is the act of taking something and creating something totally new and personal that functions and has meaning, not something that comes up with an answer.
I extremely disagree with the point that Pink made on the fact that horsepower has taken a back seat to ambience. I know that my brother tries everything he can on his car to try to gain more speed, more horsepower. I also know that when guys look at a car they do not say, "Wow, the design of the door is really attractive." But they do say, "I wonder how much horsepower that thing has."
One point that I think Pink danced around a lot but never really made clear was that the design of a new product is important but the product also has to be something new, something we have never seen before in order to influence us to like it and want it. When a new product comes out we do not become interested in it unless it is something completely new. Something that has significance and utility. So a new product not only has to have design but it has to be innovative and original.
Pink quoted CHAD'S Barbara Chandler Alan who said, "To be a designer is to be an agent of change." I thought that this was interesting because it is true if you think about it, and also it gives a reason for why design will be essential. Because design can not be shipped over seas!!!!
Here are a couple extra things about design:
Here is a very interesting article on the influence of font text (Postrel)
Here is a video talking about the design of a car and the importants of the car's design. (The Design)
In the movie Mona Lisa Smiles, there is a scene where the students are brought to a warehouse where they observe a very interestingly designed painting. This is the turning point in the movie when the students finally start to use their brain as a whole and understand the picture as they see it instead of how someone else has told them to understand it. It was the design of the painting that made the difference. Here is the trailer for the film and the scene for what I was talking about is close to the very end. (Mona)